The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-07
DOXEY HAS 4 BUSY DAY
He Feels Encouraged and Thinks He
Will Begin Active Work Next Week.
The Standard Oil Company Proposes to Fur
nish Indianapolis People with New
Kind of Cheap Fuei-TaIk About Gas.

The way contracts have been comm in this
week has greatly encouraged Major Doxey, of
the Anderson Natural-gas Company, and he is
beginning to feel very confident that the end of
the week will show sufficient patronage to war
rant his company in beginning work To-day has
been been the busiest day have had since
opened Office" said he last night .Our
room has been crowded all day with people who
wanted to contract. and it was hardly possible
to wait on all of them While the various
mittees at work in several sections of the city
have not reported yet this week have inf orma-
ton that they meeting with great success.
/ now feel very much encouraged, and do not
think there is much doubt about our beginning
active work next week"
Have you contracted for piping yet"
asked.
1.-THE contracts are drawn, and will be signed
just get the desired number of
consumers The pipes will be purchased in
Pittsburg The quality has been agreed upon,
and nothing remains to be done but sign the
contracts"
"There is one thing very certain" continued
Mr.. Doxey. 'If our company does not get suf-
fcieut support to warrant us in going ahead,
Indianapolis will not have gas for some time to
come. and never under the ordinance prices. I
field ever intended to come in under the present
ordinance If we are not successful they will
hold off until they get better supply of gas,
and then demand the schedule raised, never
come in."
Are you negotiating for the purchase of the
Standards wells at Noblesville2"
I'VE shall buy them if the Standard
pany will sell. had talk with Mansfield while
he here this week. He said his company
would not come in under the present ordinance,
and I asked him then if their wells would not be
sold. He said they probably would and told
him / ready to purchase them. He prom
sed that our company should have them in case
they were sold. and 1 have doubt about
getting them"
If the Anderson company does get possession
of the wells they will probably pipe from Ander
son to Nobesville and thence to this city.
The visit of Mr.. Mansfield to the city this
week has revived considerable talk about the
Standard Oil Company but Mr.. Mansfield denies
that his visit was in any way connected with the
gas question He has an entirely new scheme
which he hopes to put into operation here 1t is
to furnish the manufactures of the city
with oil fuel. The company has
enormous supply of oil in its Lima, O.. dis
trict that does not refine we'll A gentleman
who was recently through the oil district says
that not more than one barrel out of ten will re-
fine, aud yet it has proved very satisfactory for
fuel use. The company is perfecting a process
by which the petroleum lay be used for general
domestic purposes at very low cost but thus
far it is used only in furnaces by throwing the
spray into the furnace. While here Mr.. Mans
field called quite number of manufacturers
in reference to contracting for OIL He received
some encoura cement from them, and was given
to understand that he would probably be pa
tronIZed in case natural gas not forthcoming
soon. The general impression among man.
ufacturers seems to be. however. that while
oil may be much cheaper than coal. il cannot
come into competition with natural gas, and
will, therefore, only go into in cities remote
from the districts There is no doubt about
the manufacturers becoming impatient at the
slowness of getting gas here. but they prefer
waiting reasonable time for it rather than
contracting for OIL
The Indianapolis Gas Company and the Capt.
tai CITY company have nothing new TO report
with reference to their progress The repre-
septatives of both give ont the information that
they will have gas here any other
company but as yet have done nothing toward
piping